Evolution And History

xxxix DANA WALRATH is Assistant Professor of Family Medi- cine at the University of Vermont and a Women’s Studies- affiliated fa ...

xl About the Authors of anthropology at Kansas State University. McBride’s many publications include Women of the Dawn (1999), M ...

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Challenge Issue It is a challenge to make sense of who we are. Where did we come from? Why are we so radically different from so ...

3 The Essence of Anthropology CHAPTER 1 Chapter Preview How Do Anthropologists Do What They Do? Anthropologists, like other scho ...

4 CHAPTER 1 | The Essence of Anthropology For as long as we have been on earth, people have sought to understand who we are, whe ...

Anthropological Perspectives 5 expect, for example, to know as much about the struc- ture of the human eye as anatomists or as m ...

6 CHAPTER 1 | The Essence of Anthropology bouts. Some mothers incorrectly interpret the crying as in- dicating that the babies a ...

Anthropology and Its Fields 7 One of the earliest contexts in which anthropological knowledge was applied to a practical problem ...

8 CHAPTER 1 | The Essence of Anthropology Biocultural Connection The Anthropology of Organ Transplantation In 1954, the first or ...

Anthropology and Its Fields 9 Though Jane Goodall originally began her studies of chimpanzees to shed light on the behavior of o ...

10 CHAPTER 1 | The Essence of Anthropology Anthropology Applied Forensic Anthropology: Voices for the Dead Forensic anthropology ...

Anthropology and Its Fields 11 investigator, who searches the site for clues. While the forensic anthropologist deals with the h ...

12 CHAPTER 1 | The Essence of Anthropology Through his pioneering ethnographic studies of the culture of drug addicts and dealer ...

Anthropology and Its Fields 13 schools, marriage practices, conflict resolution, corporate bureaucracies, and health-care system ...

14 CHAPTER 1 | The Essence of Anthropology distributions, linguistic anthropologists may estimate how long the speakers of those ...

Anthropology and Its Fields 15 by William Rathje at the University of Arizona in 1973. This anthropological study of household w ...

16 CHAPTER 1 | The Essence of Anthropology Anthropology, Science, and the Humanities With its broad scope of subjects and method ...